The play's balance of conflicting viewpoints, its austere institutional setting and its sensational front-page subject at first bring to mind those tidy topical melodramas of truth and falsehood that were once so popular.
Hearing the name first brings to mind tough riffing and foot stamping dad-rock but the truth is a lot weirder.
'Third' brought to mind the three-sided geometry of the dreaded triangulation.
Third, bring to mind those present benefits that do exist at your work.
The sophistication of the latest ERES technology, which samples and reproduces sound three million times a second, brings to mind certain philosophical quandaries: How many dots, for example, must be drawn and connected by lines to achieve a perfect circle?
Second, bring to mind someone from your childhood who really believed in you, someone who "got" you, who understood you, someone with whom you connected at a heart level.
When I first saw it, it brought to mind the work of Louis Kahn, who — in an effort to root modern architecture in an ancient past — used classical references to imbue glass, concrete and steel with an aura of historical monumentality.
The death, by heart attack, is rendered slowly, threaded with Kwaku's memories of the births of his children, of his unjust professional fall from grace, and of Folasadé, his first wife, who is brought to mind by "dewdrops on grass blades like diamonds flung freely from the pouch of some sprite-god who'd just happened by".
The first film's villain brought to mind Anakin Skywalker (a flawed pupil whose teachers couldn't control him).
My first stroll through the complex brought to mind a conversation that I had with President Shirley Tilghman more than 13 years ago when she invited me to join her administration.
Hannah's first foray in MFA-land also brought to mind Chad Harbach's MFA vs NYC n+1 essay about the pros and cons of graduate school in terms of making it as a New York writer.
